Where are the Cryonicists?
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You know, this is a REALLY hot market for cryonics. Find a haven for internet ultra-hypochondriacs who are convinced they have some rare and incurable disease, and sell them a cryonics contract, promising cures in the future... mwahahahahaaaaa... velly intalesting...
Now we are going to see the radical political groups engage in biowarfare, releasing cold viruses that compete against each other, turning the population gay one week, straight the next, and so on.
If God is Love, and a scientist can give it or take it away, does this mean the scientist is playing God, or IS God????
Yeah, I've modified an employment NDA to exclude stuff I've created outside work. That job lasted a month.
Doing this is a filter: it filters out the sort of employers who are going to have a tendency to screw you on other things as well, like retirements, stock options, etc.
I realize in today's economy you might be willing to take anything that comes down the pike. Just make sure you don't wind up sitting on the pike as a result.
It would be a far more fitting tribute to the Apollo 11 astronauts to invest the $40 million in a company involved in the X-Prize competition. Making space travel an everyday experience for normal people is a much more worthy goal than propping up a toxic hunk of rust as just one more useless Florida tourist trap.
He WANTS you to think that is a fake name, so that you won't look at anyone named Andy, because that's reall his name. Then again, maybe he wants you to think that he wants you to think that its a fake name...
Comcast does use larger dishes, but your assumption is reverse of true. Big dishes catch more of the wind. They also tend to be set up at higher elevations where weather tends to be more severe. There is also the issue of the cable to my neighborhood being taken out by falling trees. If the dish is on my house, the only way it is getting taken out is if a tree falls right on top of it, at which point, I won't be very interested in watching TV.
If you are any sort of libertarian or otherwise against the Drug War, you should know that Comcast has steadily refused to air commercials for pot legalization groups.
As for technical issues, I've had satellite tv (DSS, Dish, etc) in several locations, and the thing is that it all depends on how securely you install the dish (have done it myself a couple times without difficulty) and how accurately you aim it. As for weather interference, keep in mind that the cable company gets ITS signal off the satellites too, so any weather that is going to mess up your signal is going to mess theirs up too.
I am currently on Adelphia digital cable with their internet service as well. I have experienced outages of a few minutes to half a day at least half a dozen times in the last three months since I got the upgrade to Powerlink.
Objectively speaking, its six of one, half a dozen of the other.
The CalPIRG line item asks if the student wants it or not. It does not explain to the student that PIRG groups are radical left wing organizations that oppose the right of students to self-defense, that want to eliminate the ability of students to choose to eat affordable and nourishing genetically engineered food, that oppose animal research for AIDS cures, that fund opposition to malaria abatement programs worldwide (causing milltions of deaths), and which are distinctly against letting property owners decide how to use their own property. Truth in advertising cuts both ways, but groups like CalPIRG and their allies don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot.
Actually, Lazar got arrested by the feds for setting up a computer system for a Nevada brothel. He says it was an illegal bust intended to discredit him without killing him. Claimed that he got too much public exposure and was too young to suffer from a mysterious death or 'heart attack', so a prostitution/pimping bust did the job.
I'm wondering how many stories I report are going to get rejected, then scooped a day later by a moderators lackey, before I actually get an attribution.
The number used to be far lower. A study in the 60's looked at the numbers and instituted a program to train infantry better. The problem is that most humans have an inherent reticence to shoot their fellow human beings that needs to be trained out of them.
Shooting at bullseye targets on a range doesn't do it. The infantry training now consists of realistic battlefields with pop up black painted human torsos. This has significantly increased the percent of troops that can be relied to to shoot the enemy. First Person Shooter video games are also a big help...
Yes, though GW I was, in fact, the first widely GPS war, at least among American troops.
Prior to GW I, there were certainly friendly fire incidents, but they came from the same problem: troops too illiterate to read a map properly.
You wouldn't be associated with a Stryker unit, would you?
Nope, sorry if your hopes were raised...;)
I did my service over a decade ago, during the pre-Clinton chapter of the Gulf War. I was an airman during the Panama fun, and at that time would have preferred anything like the Stryker over the step vans we were getting shot at in by PDF snipers, whenver we ventured out to work on the aircraft. Of course, the brass didn't want us getting run over by our own ground equipment, so in addition to our camo, we had to wear these nice reflective belts to help point us out to the snipers...
The Dell has twice as much battery time and costs $100 less for the same disk capacity. How again is the iPod a better product? Oh, yeah, it "looks cooler". That is an objective geek opinion. Since when did geeks care about looks?
Easier to use? How many different ways can you arrange play, pause, forward, reverse, advance buttons?
The real opinion:
a) iPod: Made by Apple, so its cool and 'artistic'
b) Dell: Made by Dell, that evil PC maker and Windows reseller, so anything they do is automajically bad.
I seem to recall the geeks and geekettes ranting here a few years ago about how the evil Microsoft was fragmenting Java against Sun's wishes and how that was an evil thing that must be stopped at all costs no matter what kill Bill Gates he's the antichrist blah blah blah....
Funny how when it's an open source group doing the fragmenting it somehow becomes a good thing.
Have to SERIOUSLY contest your claims that the Stryker is vulnerable to 7.62mm AK-47 rounds. This is the following info on the current armor problemss the Stryker has:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/ 2001714917_stryker5m.html
"The Stryker vehicles rely on 132 separate ceramic plates designed to protect against rounds up to 14.5 mm, slightly bigger than a.50-caliber bullet.
But Army procurement officials recently found that the military subcontractor hired to provide the armor deviated widely from specifications, providing 39 manufacturing variations of the plates, the sources said. The Army had approved only six variations.
Testers at Aberdeen found that at least one variation of the armor could not stop a 14.5-mm round, the Army officials said. The armor's supplier, German military contractor IBD, could not be reached for comment yesterday. "
So it is evident that:
a) the Stryker is designed to withstand.50 caliber bullets (i.e. everything that ground troops can throw at it save anti-tank missiles), though NOT a 20 mm cannon which are found only on aircraft, as I previous stated. Note that.50 cal is twice the diameter of the 7.62mm round you specified. Sorry...
b) while this was the design, the German contractor who did the armor produced substandard quality and widely deviated from design specs. So it isn't a design problem, it is a build problem. According to the article it is being mitigated by reinforcement with 3mm of additional armor welded onto the backs of the faulty plates.
c) It is also a slam against the US military contracting with overseas contractors.
Stryker's armor is heavier than the armored version of the hummer, but not so armored as the Bradley, by intent. The sort of machine gun caliber that can penetrate the wheel wells are only mounted on aircraft, which would never be shooting at the stryker from below. Furthermore, the angling of the armor deflects RPG rounds without alloing the round to focus it's charge on the armor.
Now, I'd like to see you design a tank that can go where the Stryker can. Ain't gonna happen. You add more armor and it will sink in the sand.
I happen to be a veteran, so I know both the demands of the field as well as the poor quality product that is coming out of the high schools in this country. One of the biggest training expenses the military has today is remedial education as well as getting experts to dumb down the traing as much as possible.
Note, for example, that almost all friendly fire casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq are due to idiots who misused their GPS units in relaying coordinates to aircraft.
There is a reason the USAF has its own combat air controllers. It can't trust the Army not to screw up the job (and the AF ain't too hot at it either).
I can understand if there were just systems being developed to help a human driver gain a better sense of control and not exceed parameters. That isn't the case. The Army wants the grunt totally out of the loop. That says they don't trust their grunts not to wreck the vehicles.
If IBM had played hardball and demanded ownership, more than likely Gates would have caved. The world would be much different today, that's for sure.
Yeah, IBM would still be the worlds biggest technology company (as it was before MS came along), you would still see the Blue Screen of Death on PCs (only it would be Big Blue (c)(r)) and a user copy of the OS alone would cost $2k. Some IBM exec would be building a 36,000 square foot house on the outskirts of Endicott, NY, and every two bit self-described hacker would hate that guy to no end.
This is nothing but an illustration of the failure of American public education. Even the US Army knows that its typical cannon fodder, er, recruit into its "army of one", is dumb, uneducated, illiterate, ignorant, unskilled, and incapable of keeping an eight wheeled vehicle between the lines, not to mention somewhere near an allied armored formation. "Dumb as a bag of hammers" was a phrase invented by a drill sergeant.
Considering the scam that PIRG groups commit in conning students into unwittingly funding their groups with a cryptic line item on their tuition bills, perhaps the PIRGs can make a contribution to affordable education by ending this practice.
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If God is Love, and a scientist can give it or take it away, does this mean the scientist is playing God, or IS God????
Yeah, I've modified an employment NDA to exclude stuff I've created outside work. That job lasted a month. Doing this is a filter: it filters out the sort of employers who are going to have a tendency to screw you on other things as well, like retirements, stock options, etc. I realize in today's economy you might be willing to take anything that comes down the pike. Just make sure you don't wind up sitting on the pike as a result.
It would be a far more fitting tribute to the Apollo 11 astronauts to invest the $40 million in a company involved in the X-Prize competition. Making space travel an everyday experience for normal people is a much more worthy goal than propping up a toxic hunk of rust as just one more useless Florida tourist trap.
If you get him one of those USB drives, put an easter egg on it: some nudie pictures of yourself...
This is painfully obvious on a daily basis.
The BBC however are, we (brits) pay them to give us the facts, the truth.
Another example of the tragedy of the commons?
He WANTS you to think that is a fake name, so that you won't look at anyone named Andy, because that's reall his name. Then again, maybe he wants you to think that he wants you to think that its a fake name...
As for technical issues, I've had satellite tv (DSS, Dish, etc) in several locations, and the thing is that it all depends on how securely you install the dish (have done it myself a couple times without difficulty) and how accurately you aim it. As for weather interference, keep in mind that the cable company gets ITS signal off the satellites too, so any weather that is going to mess up your signal is going to mess theirs up too.
I am currently on Adelphia digital cable with their internet service as well. I have experienced outages of a few minutes to half a day at least half a dozen times in the last three months since I got the upgrade to Powerlink.
Objectively speaking, its six of one, half a dozen of the other.
The CalPIRG line item asks if the student wants it or not. It does not explain to the student that PIRG groups are radical left wing organizations that oppose the right of students to self-defense, that want to eliminate the ability of students to choose to eat affordable and nourishing genetically engineered food, that oppose animal research for AIDS cures, that fund opposition to malaria abatement programs worldwide (causing milltions of deaths), and which are distinctly against letting property owners decide how to use their own property. Truth in advertising cuts both ways, but groups like CalPIRG and their allies don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot.
I'm wondering how many stories I report are going to get rejected, then scooped a day later by a moderators lackey, before I actually get an attribution.
Shooting at bullseye targets on a range doesn't do it. The infantry training now consists of realistic battlefields with pop up black painted human torsos. This has significantly increased the percent of troops that can be relied to to shoot the enemy. First Person Shooter video games are also a big help...
Yes, though GW I was, in fact, the first widely GPS war, at least among American troops. Prior to GW I, there were certainly friendly fire incidents, but they came from the same problem: troops too illiterate to read a map properly.
Nope, sorry if your hopes were raised... ;)
I did my service over a decade ago, during the pre-Clinton chapter of the Gulf War. I was an airman during the Panama fun, and at that time would have preferred anything like the Stryker over the step vans we were getting shot at in by PDF snipers, whenver we ventured out to work on the aircraft. Of course, the brass didn't want us getting run over by our own ground equipment, so in addition to our camo, we had to wear these nice reflective belts to help point us out to the snipers...
When you dial with your middle finger, your pr0n is all tactical.
I think I meant it ironically. Completely understand that slashdot comments suffer from an iron deficiency.
The Dell has twice as much battery time and costs $100 less for the same disk capacity. How again is the iPod a better product? Oh, yeah, it "looks cooler". That is an objective geek opinion. Since when did geeks care about looks? Easier to use? How many different ways can you arrange play, pause, forward, reverse, advance buttons? The real opinion: a) iPod: Made by Apple, so its cool and 'artistic' b) Dell: Made by Dell, that evil PC maker and Windows reseller, so anything they do is automajically bad.
Funny how when it's an open source group doing the fragmenting it somehow becomes a good thing.
I wear my pink sunglasses at night...
Have to SERIOUSLY contest your claims that the Stryker is vulnerable to 7.62mm AK-47 rounds. This is the following info on the current armor problemss the Stryker has: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/ 2001714917_stryker5m.html
"The Stryker vehicles rely on 132 separate ceramic plates designed to protect against rounds up to 14.5 mm, slightly bigger than a .50-caliber bullet.
But Army procurement officials recently found that the military subcontractor hired to provide the armor deviated widely from specifications, providing 39 manufacturing variations of the plates, the sources said. The Army had approved only six variations.
Testers at Aberdeen found that at least one variation of the armor could not stop a 14.5-mm round, the Army officials said. The armor's supplier, German military contractor IBD, could not be reached for comment yesterday. "
So it is evident that:
a) the Stryker is designed to withstand .50 caliber bullets (i.e. everything that ground troops can throw at it save anti-tank missiles), though NOT a 20 mm cannon which are found only on aircraft, as I previous stated. Note that .50 cal is twice the diameter of the 7.62mm round you specified. Sorry...
b) while this was the design, the German contractor who did the armor produced substandard quality and widely deviated from design specs. So it isn't a design problem, it is a build problem. According to the article it is being mitigated by reinforcement with 3mm of additional armor welded onto the backs of the faulty plates.
c) It is also a slam against the US military contracting with overseas contractors.
Stryker's armor is heavier than the armored version of the hummer, but not so armored as the Bradley, by intent. The sort of machine gun caliber that can penetrate the wheel wells are only mounted on aircraft, which would never be shooting at the stryker from below. Furthermore, the angling of the armor deflects RPG rounds without alloing the round to focus it's charge on the armor.
Now, I'd like to see you design a tank that can go where the Stryker can. Ain't gonna happen. You add more armor and it will sink in the sand.
Note, for example, that almost all friendly fire casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq are due to idiots who misused their GPS units in relaying coordinates to aircraft.
There is a reason the USAF has its own combat air controllers. It can't trust the Army not to screw up the job (and the AF ain't too hot at it either).
I can understand if there were just systems being developed to help a human driver gain a better sense of control and not exceed parameters. That isn't the case. The Army wants the grunt totally out of the loop. That says they don't trust their grunts not to wreck the vehicles.
Yeah, IBM would still be the worlds biggest technology company (as it was before MS came along), you would still see the Blue Screen of Death on PCs (only it would be Big Blue (c)(r)) and a user copy of the OS alone would cost $2k. Some IBM exec would be building a 36,000 square foot house on the outskirts of Endicott, NY, and every two bit self-described hacker would hate that guy to no end.
How again would the world be much different?